Word: lootings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...M.I.A.’s “Kala,” is all about appropriation. The way the hook flips Wreckx-N-Effect’s “Rump Shaker” is how the whole album goes: no sex, just violence, now hand over the loot. M.I.A. seems just as comfortable at this track’s slower pace as she does on her more characteristic, dance-oriented songs, and this change of pace makes “Paper Planes” all the more murderous. The track is so good that I might even...
...negotiate the deal through a third party (exhibition sponsor United Daily News Group) because high-level government-to-government contacts are forbidden. And no one expects progress on the issue of the National Palace Museum collections in Taiwan. The Chinese government still views the museum's holdings as stolen loot, spirited away by Chiang Kai-shek's army when it retreated to the island in 1949; curators in Taipei don't dare let the artifacts travel to the mainland for fear that they might not return. (Sportingly, China has loaned objects in the other direction - earlier this year, the National...
...mutated. It began as a rebellion by two local movements; the government responded by arming Arab-speaking militias who attacked civilian communities of the same ethnicity as the rebels. Today the rebel movements and the militias have splintered, and more than 20 gangs range across the harsh terrain seeking loot and land. Now, thanks in no small part to the intervention of China, there are glimmers of hope, but what is still needed is mediation to establish some peace for the peacekeepers to keep...
...Simple, in the Cannes Market. They won the Palme d'Or in 1991 for Barton Fink. But the brothers' earlier crime dramas are mere frolics compared to No Country For Old Men-a grim, mostly enthralling version of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel about $2 million in missing drug loot. For most of its 122-minute running time, this is a gnarly action movie, a duel between a kind-of-good guy (Josh Brolin) who finds the stash, and an implacable monster (Javier Bardem) who's pursuing him and leaving a heap of corpses along the way. Toward...
...CONTROVERSY: The divers, who brought the loot home, say the ship was in neutral territory. Skeptical officials from Spain vowed to reclaim any booty from Spanish waters...